Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2008

I'm working on what has become my annual holiday post at BlogHer on the topic: Helping kids understand why it is better to give than to receive. Take for example the lemon stand fundraiser. One of their donors was a class of kindergarteners!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

Over a year ago, I interviewed Carnet Williams , a long time member of the nonprofit technology and riders community and who recently launched a tool called Chipin which is designed to simplify the process of connecting with people in your social network to collect money for a personal cause, to purchase a gift, or for community fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 16, 2008

Relationship : It's spring fundraising season and I'm getting spammed. And now I'm asking you to consider making a gift to Roger's Campaign - his goal is $1,000 and the minimum gift is $10. You can also learn a lot about personal fundraising from reading Roger's blog or checking out his presentations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2008

We talked a lot about gift economies, storytelling, and some web2.0 The session I did at Blogher was about tools for community fundraising (Marnie Webb set up a wiki with notes and links). tools that facilitate this. Marnie Webb by JD Lasica. My friend, David Cohn, attended. Dave founded ??? What are the best practices?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2007

Twitter isn't half bad as a fundraising tool. There is a connection to something that Tara Hunt mentioned at BlogHer. She asked a great question about "virtual gift economy." " She mentioned Lewis Hyde 's work and referenced the virtual gifts on Facebook. more about that later. I've never met Liz in person.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2006

I'm finally back home after an extended business trip that began with the Blogher 2006 conference. "While fundraising was once the domain of nonprofits and their corporate partners, with each crisis, Network for Good has seen an increasing number of people creating links to their favorite charities to fundraise on their behalf.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2006

My fellow BlogHer co-editor, Beth Kanter , has launched a fundraising campaign using ChipIn. ChipIn allows a group of people to collect money online whether it is for a birthday gift, a party or a fundraiser.

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